Projects at risk

This page documents projects that are causing problems for the hackspace because they're unfinished or unmaintained.

Projects which have been abandoned are liable to be thrown away or repurposed to recover the working area and the components in them. Any project can be proposed for this treatment : this page is where the progress is noted.

THIS PAGE IS A PROPOSAL - EXPIRY DATES ARE EXAMPLES

In particular, no attempt has been made at present to contact the owners named. The action dates are therefore not yet valid.

Procedure

A project that has been noted (marked for deletion ..) should be added to this page and the date noted. The project owner - if there is one - should be contacted and must respond by updating the page within 1 month. The response may be one or more of :

• Action taken towards completing the project
• Documenting an acceptable plan to make progress on the project
• Agreement that the project should be scrapped and a plan for disposal

If this doesn't happen, the assumption is that the project will be assigned to the 3-week bin for eventual disposal. Initially, we'll say that consensus must occur for any project to be scrapped in this way. If the procedure is found to work we may be able to make the requirements less subjective. Other interested parties may change the requirements, disposal plans etc. but this will normally cause the 1 month waiting period to be restarted.

Note that the owner is not necessarily the owner of the equipment. Some projects are the property of the hackspace. The owner is the person who initially drove the project and takes responsibility for it.

Projects needing attention

Stratasys

Owner

Artag/Hipster Chris

Status

The Stratasys has seen very limited progress after an encouraging start. Believed to now have all requirements except for some repairs to stepper control boards.

With various people contributing, Hipster got it working[1] and has put instructions on the wiki. Apparently still turns off periodically. Bumping up action time by 1 month. Ms7821 21:23, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Fully working with occasional bugs. Action completed, machine no longer at risk. --Artag 13:24, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Stratasys was stripped down again before the move, and was given 3 months to be rebuilt in April

Requirements

Print an STL off the internet.

Calendar

• Noted 'at risk' --Artag 11:55, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
• Billy contacted 6.10.2011, passed ownership to artag
• Action required by 6.11.2011
• Hipster performed first print on 3rd November
• Action completed. No further action required while machine remains functional.
• Non functional, being worked on by Hipster. Given until NYE. --Montyphy (talk) 12:05, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Disposal

Glen2 has suggested reusing the mechanical part and replacing the electronics with reprap parts. Scrap

Vending machine

Owner

Mark

Status

• Progress slow since it was damaged and Solexious got busy with work
• Mark has taken over and is retesting functionality from Jasper's notes

Requirements

See Equipment/Vending_machine#To do - basically, confirm whether everything really is broken

Calendar

• Noted 'at risk' --Artag 11:55, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
• Project reassigned 20 July 2013
• Locks picked on 1 October 2013
• Action required by 3 December 2013

Disposal

Scrap